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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09051 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 7 April 1768 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 25.9 cm, Width: 19.2 cm Order a Copy

Discusses a land agreement between the heirs of Samuel Waldo on the one part and a group of investors including Benjamin Lynde and James Bowdoin on the other part.

Waldo, Francis, fl. 1728-1784
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783
Waldo, Samuel, fl. 1723-1770
Flucker, Hannah, 1726-1785
Winslow, Lucy, 1724-1768
Winslow, Isaac, 1709-1777
Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790
Lynde, Benjamin, fl. 1766
Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814
Appleton, Nathaniel, 1731-1798
Leddel, Henry, fl. 1766

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